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Diamond Dove

Diamond Dove

by Adrian Hyland (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $5.39
Synopsis

Emily Tempest has been away from Central Australia's outback for a long time - uni, travel, dead-end jobs...finding trouble all over the world. Now, she's back at Moonlight Downs, the community where she grew up, half in the Aboriginal world, half in the white. And true to form, there's trouble. Within hours of her arrival an old friend is brutally murdered and mutilated and an old enemy is the only suspect...until Emily starts asking questions. Take a nail-biting mystery, an epic setting and a heroine with a talent for stirring things up. Throw in an affectionate flogging of outback Australia's melanoma-encrusted hide - and "Diamond Dove" just might be the wittiest and most gripping debut of the year.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 1847241786
ISBN 13: 9781847241788

Media Reviews
This debut packs a real wallop. With never wavering confidence and flair to make the most seasoned of writers envious, Hyland spins an epic and ambitious mystery set against the vast backdrop of Central Australia where indigenous and white people live side by side in an uneasy truce - Vogue As powerful as they are, words can barely describe the joy I felt on reading Adrian Hyland's first novel - Weekend Australian Sometimes fictional characters seem to spring fully formed from their creators' heads, and Adrian Hyland's Emily Tempest is one of them...Hyland's Diamond Dove is a whodunit, but its sparky irreverence lifts it out of the genre into a class of its own - BulletinHyland's prose is evocative...leavened with humour...an intriguing tale - Dublin Evening Herald
Author Bio
After studying languages and literature at Melbourne University, Adrian Hyland moved to Central Australia where he lived for ten years working in community development in remote Aboriginal communities and living with the Warlpiri people in the Tanami Desert. Diamond Dove is his first novel.